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DerNebel on 03 March 2014
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DJEVOLVE said:
DerNebel said:
DJEVOLVE said:
Nate4Drake said:

Let's enjoy the game experience. PS4 will dominate this gen, live with that X fans. Accept it, it will be easier and less painful. It's silly to look at the micro scenario, 1 week after a price cut, etc... any company going with a price cut and those deals so early is in serious troubles.


Really is that what happened with the PS3? PS3 cut price in July of there launch year. So is XBOX ONE going to be doomed if they do the same and cut price as early as July? Seems many of you don't understand that this is the very beginning of the gen and anything can happen. Took ps3 a long time to catch up but they did.

http://www.geek.com/games/ps3-gets-price-cut-on-july-12-update-566948/

http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/39271/Global/

Numbers from that month.  Look XBox One Should pass PS3 numbers by April in aligned launch year.. So to say anyone cutting price and doing deals this early, is also saying PS3 would have never came back and was doomed.  Sorry but this argument is getting really old.

DS 453,238 (-3%) 46,377,230
Wii 255,828 (-8%) 9,301,578
PSP 183,447 (-6%) 24,414,591
X360 69,870 (-13%) 10,461,493
PS3 63,826 (+4%) 3,884,475
Total 1,026,209(-5%)  

Even at $600  and with hardly any games, against a 360 that had already build up a very respectable game library, the difference in weekly sales between the PS3 and 360 was never even close to as drastic as that of the X1 and PS4 is.

Here is March 3rd of 2007. PS3 4 month on sale. Look at the difference. XBox One is 2.5 million ahead in sales compared.^^^^ Above is of July 2007. 8 months of the ps3 on sale ^^^^^

DS 452,903 (-10%) 38,390,948
Wii 200,263 (-14%) 5,109,095
PSP 175,399 (-17%) 21,194,796
X360 95,476 (-12%) 9,022,392
PS3 80,401 (+61%) 1,953,123
Total 1,004,442(-9%)  

Point being, don't be so sure. So what if it has a early lead, many things start and end in way different scenario's.  360 also had a 7 million unit lead.

http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/39145/Global/

I'm not saying that the X1 won't sell decently, but your comment was a quote to a guy that said the X1 was not going outsell the PS4 and I just pointed out that the situation you used as an argument against that is not really comparable as the PS3 was never lagging behind the 360 as much in weekly sales as the X1 is lagging behind the PS4. The X1 outselling the PS4 is unrealistic, the X1 doing well for itself isn't.

Also I'm just gonna ignore that PS3 to X1 comparison since there is a fuckton wrong with it, for example the PS3 was at that point available to less than 50% of the people that eventually bought one, whereas the X1 is easily available to over 80% of the people that bought a 360, also you cannot ignore how extremely frontloaded the X1s launch was and how telling it is how sharp the numbers dropped after the holidays. In the same week the PS3 sold 24k more than the X1 (at least according to Vgchartz) with being available to less than 50% of its customers, that is the important thing here, if you really want to make that comparison.